Source Financial Post With its declaration that high-speed Internet is a basic service, Canada’s telecom regulator is shifting its regulatory focus from voice to broadband. In a much-anticipated decision released Wednesday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission declared that all…

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/broadband-internet-access-rural-1.3898358 Deadline for applications to secure project funding is March 13, 2017 The federal government is spending $500 million to provide basic “backbone networks” to some rural communities and to upgrade existing networks in others. (Denis Rozhnovsky/Shutterstock) The…

Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/cloud-traffic-to-jump-262-by-2020-according-to-cisco-global-cloud-index/ Cloud data center traffic will rise astronomically, from 3.9 ZB in 2015 to 14.1 ZB by 2020, representing 92% of all data center traffic, according to a new Cisco report. By Teena Maddox | November 10, 2016,…

Source http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/telecoms-consumer-advocates-face-off-over-internet-data-pricing-and-date-usage-caps?__lsa=c58d-2f30 Emily Jackson | October 31, 2016 11:56 AM ET More from Emily Jackson J. Emilio Flores/The New York TimesCanadians are paying more for their communications services in a trend driven by increased spending on wireless and Internet packages…

Source: http://www.am980.ca/2016/10/27/crtc-canadians-internet-television/ London, Ontario / (CFPL AM) AM 980 – Posted: October 27, 2016 07:58 am In a sign of the times, the CRTC says Canadians are now spending more on Internet access than television services. The Canadian…

Canadian Internet Register Authority (CIRA) as a part of its mandate to “improve Internet performance” has introduced a Canada wide Internet speed testing facility at https://performance.cira.ca/ . They recommend you use Google Chrome as a browser for doing this testing.…